How to get a free web-based e-mail address.
1. Once you've read and understood all these directions click on this link: www.yahoo.com
2. Click on the bold blue word: Mail
3. Click on: Sign up now!
4. Fill out the resulting form and click the gray box labeled: Submit This Form
5. So long as you picked a unique user name, you're done!  If not, keep trying.  Try your whole name with middle initial like, johnqpublic or johnfkennedy as it is less likely that someone has exactly your name already registered.
Optional: You may want to visit this link to tell Yahoo! not to send you any junk mail.

If you don't like Yahoo! for some reason you can get a free web-based e-mail address from Netscape at webmail.netscape.com
For a huge list of other people giving out free e-mail addresses click here!